East Germany which point to a substantial shift in industry structure. Minimum wages decreased both market entries and … some type of evasion strategy in eastern Germany, particularly since wages for skilled roofers declined towards the minimum …

The very first minimum wage in Germany was introduced in 1997 for blue-collar workers in sub-sectors of the …-employee data. Estimation results reveal a sizable positive average impact on wages in East Germany and no effect in West Germany …

minimum wage in East Germany was set much higher in relation to the wage distribution. There is heterogeneity hidden in the … negative employment effect for East Germany, its magnitude is substantially larger than previously estimated …

This work exploits the natural experiment provided by the unexpected disintegration of socialist East Germany to study … correlation approach, annual district-level migration data for 1991 and 1992 and unique rental price indicators from Germany … various exogenous origin-region push factors related to the deteriorating economic conditions in East Germany yield estimates …